Exhibition captures a taste of daily life a century ago

A century after he went to fight in the First World War, diaries and letters about the death of an east Cork man just two months later, can be seen by the public all this week.

Jack Bennett from Ballinacurra, near Midleton, departed as 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Munster Fusiliers in August 1915, but was killed in action in France on October 13 the same year.

Born in 1890, he had been to school in England, and had started training to succeed his father John H Bennet in the family malting business before going to war.